George Bernard Shaw

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"Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius."	Genius
"The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not."	Happiness
"Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else."	Love
"Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open."	Marriage
"Most people do not pray; they only beg."	Prayer
"No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means."	Religion
"Science... never solves a problem without creating ten more."	Science
"Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!"	Sex
"Instruction in sex is as important as instruction in food; yet not only are our adolescents not taught the physiology of sex, but never warned that the strongest sexual attraction may exist between persons so incompatible in tastes and capacities that they could not endure living together for a week much less a lifetime."	Sex
"And so, to the end of history, murder shall breed murder, always in the name of right and honor and peace, until the gods are tired of blood and create a race that can understand."	Anti-Religion, Violence
"It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind."	Anti-Religion, Violence
"Virtue is insufficient temptation."	Virtue
"People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them."	Anti-Religion, Worrying
"A man never tells you anything until you contradict him."	Debate
"A man never tells you anything until you contradict him."	Anti-Religion, Argument
"You see things as they are and ask, 'Why?' I dream things as they never were and ask, 'Why not?'"	Success, Imagination
"Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough."	Time
"Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them."	America
"Lack of money is the root of all evil."	Money
"Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another."	Women
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